The Hourglass

In these seven days Michael got a lot of normal level up pills but he didn"t eat them as he reserve them for Aria and Melinda but of course he ate the golden one. Michael had reached the 7000th stairs and he all of his qi nodes have reached al least Late Liquid stages now except his heart that is already in Early Solid Stage, besides the only reason he haven"t .

Michael found out that his tentacle if kept in a semi-solid form won"t be affected by the gravity and he could use it to carry all the pill bottles.

As usually Michael took the Golden level up pill bottle in the 7000th stair and he ate the 7 pill simultaneously since he want all of his nodes to breakthrough from the Liquid Stages to Solid Stages,

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In the other two stairs Aria and Melinda was still struggling in the 236th and 297th respectively it seems the prediction was wrong since they did pa.s.s the 100th stairs and have been gaining a level up pill bottle every 100th stair they pa.s.sed, they got a bottle at 100th and another at 200th including the previous one they got three.

It seem they pa.s.sed because they got the partial ability of Michael, previously even thought this shared ability healed their muscle ache it won"t cause it to grow and since they got connected with Michael they can only strengthen their body with qi for permanent effect since it seem the shared power wasn"t strong enough to reverse it.

However now with his ability upgraded, it got transmitted to the girls as well and they could felt that they could gradually withstand a higher gravity pressure if they just rested on the stair for a while.

Now without any nodes to worry about both of the girls have reached the Solid Stages, this include a few factors but the most important is that their adaptation didn"t consume their cultivation base but just some qi, they got help from pill, and the pressurised qi in the Gravity Stairs.

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Now with the Early Solid stages cultivation on his 24 nodes his power and qi capacity was equal to 24 Solid stages expert but considering that his body has adapted to 700 times gravity he didn"t think that even 24 normal Solid stages could compare to him now.

With that confidence in his heart Michael decided he will only sleep after he reached the 8000th surpa.s.sing his record of 1000th stair per day.

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Another week have pa.s.sed yet Michael was still al of his qi nodes is still at the Early Solid Stages. There is a various reason for this, first and the most important of all is Michael just rushed trying to surpa.s.s his stair per day achievement, secondly Michael decided to reserve some golden pill for Aria and Melinda, thirdly Michael have a thought since using the pill also attract qi in the surrounding wouldn"t it be better if he used all of it at once at the highest he can reach, Lastly Michael want to prove that this thing isn"t endless.

Now at the 21745th stairs Michael shouted toward the walls where no one except himself could hear it " Just How Endless this Stairs is!?". An other was that Michael knew two weeks have pa.s.sed is the number besides the hourgla.s.s that represent how many times he could revives himself and switched off and on the power, not that he would ever want anyway, the number changed form 777 to 778 a week ago and just now it changed form just now, meaning right now is Monday.

Considering the food supply Aria and Melinda they should be out soon even if they hunger themselves since they should at least advance to Late Liquid Stages and they could partially nourish their body since in the Solid Stage you could do that and last for a month at least that was what Aria told him.

Of course maintaining Solid Cultivation Base also need some pills since his adaptation consume his cultivation base.

Michael decided that he will reach the 25000th stair and upgrade himself there consuming all the golden pill except 20 since he ama.s.sed a lot since he decided that this stair is indeed endless.

With that determination Michael rushed upstairs and whenever he felt like he couldn"t hold it anymore, he just lied on the stairs and undone his transformation and protection while waiting for his adaptation to finish he focused on gathering the qi outside, considering the concentration outside he didn"t need the pills right now to restore his cultivation base for one or two adaptation.

With that he took the pills on the stairs and advance, sometimes Michael counted wrong but the pill bottle holes remind him what stairs he was in, seeing that there is so many bottle on his back Michael decided to rest for a while.

While he was resting Michael was moving the pills form one bottle to another since it seem a bottle can hold around 50 pill at once.

He tossed away the empty bottle down to the stairs and it resounded in the empty cavern . At the end of his word the bottles that was on the edge of overflowing from his tentacles that counted at least a hundred decreased to at least dozens of bottles.

It seem this thing is so time consuming that one day already pa.s.sed and if he is right he is right now at 22200th stair, well the number coincidentally in line with each other.

Because it seem interesting Michael advance another 22 stair expecting something to happen since he is right now at 22222th stairs.

But after waiting for a while nothing happened so with disappointment Michael slept there as he uses his tentacle as a pillow while setting the pill bottles on the stairs bellow him and upstairs.

Before he fall asleep he is still wondering just how did the moss and pill bottles along the pill inside survive the gravity In the stairs.